Future Fedora 13 name will be : Goddard

by M. Zinoune

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Announced today by Fedora that Fedora 13 name will be Goddard . Traditionally Fedora release names have a connection with the previous version’s name. In this case, Fedora 12 was named Constantine and the connection to Goddard comes from rocket science.

Robert Hutchings Goddard(October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945), U.S. professor of physics and scientist, was a pioneer of controlled, liquid-fueled rocketry. He launched the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket on March 16, 1926. From 1930 to 1935, he launched rockets that attained speeds of up to 885km/h (550 mph). Though his work in the field was revolutionary, he was sometimes ridiculed for his theories sib.